Plugging In: On Videogames and Tutorials

Pixels or Death's Patrick Lindsey talks about videogame tutorials, why they're invasive, and why games need to just let us "plug in" and find our own success (and reward) - all wrapped up in a fancy Matrix analogy!

"There is a feeling of accomplishment, not scripted but personal, that comes from flowing through a game that strictly guided tutorials are incapable of delivering. We want our games to make us feel badass – not because we reached the appropriate part of the script where it’s supposed to happen, but because we genuinely have achieved mastery and become badass."